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well try it with rpm -ivh instead of rpm -Uvh, and maybe also try to do rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm, and if you still have problem persisting, just go ahead and su to root and make the directory structure /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES manually, and then try rpm -ivh filename.src.rpm...post back if you still have problems..

cause its a source file, so it put it in the directory that you just made, that you were getting errors with...
if you just wanted it to install from the get go, then you would have to get an rpm that looked like:
gcc-3.2.2-5.rpm
rather than
gcc-3.2.2-5.src..rpm